Party of Democratic Socialism

The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) is a democratic socialist political party in Germany, founded on 16 December 1989. The party was the legal successor to the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany, which was dissolved after the reunification of Germany. The PDS was popular in the former territories of East Germany (the "new states"), regularly winning between 15% and 25% of the vote in the eastern states, and it was allied to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in elections in the east. On 16 June 2007, the party merged into the Die Linke party.